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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 3/02/2016 9:08 AM, R. Kent James
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<p>I've had some discussions with James Quilty about major student
engineering projects involving Thunderbird. Here is his
proposal, and he is asking for specific suggestions of
appropriate projects.</p>
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R. Kent James
Chair, Thunderbird Council
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Perhaps not glorious or fancy, but a serious challenge to implement
properly. Bug <a
href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22689">22689 </a><span
id="summary_alias_container"><span id="short_desc_nonedit_display">Import/Export
Profile (Backup/Restore)<br>
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Users are becoming less file system savy, Moving a profile is a
major thing for them and we are now seeing such brilliance and
moving the mail folder and replacing it. then asking what went
wrong.<br>
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This appears to be a defined issue with a fixed scope and
significant existing work already having been completed in
related bugs. See
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://hg.mozilla.org/automation/profilemanager/">http://hg.mozilla.org/automation/profilemanager/</a> for a stand
alone profile manager with profile backup and restore.<br>
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